The Arizona sentinel., 1887-01-08
NUMBER 6.
PITH AND POINT,


 A new book is entitled ''The Key hole Country" It is undoubtedly full of conversations accidentally over heard.
 -She-I think any man ought to be able to support a woman. He-Well. don't know about that; some women are insupportable, you knOw.-WaSh- ingtoR Globe.
 -''One Hundred Years is the title of a new Thanksgiving poem. It is a terribly long sentence, but after read ing the poem we are convinced that the poet deserved it.-Burdette.
 Some fireman, somewhere, evident ly smitten with somebody, gave the fol- lowing toast: ''Cupid and his torch, the only incendiary that can kindle flame which the engines can not quench. "
 -Gus-Have you put the important question to old MOneybags' daughter. Jack? Jack-No. 1 hear there is prior attachment there. Gus-You don't say so? Jack-Yes, the sheriff has attached every thing the old man owns.-N r. Sun.
 Professor (to students)-Pray, go on smoking, it doesn't annoy me in the least; on the contrary, like to see oth- CTS enjoy it. It is the same with to- bacco as with hay; I don't eat any my self, but am delighted to watch others enjoying it.-M. r. Telegram.
 Servant (to woman at the door)- The mistress was taken very i'll last night and can't see anyone. Them's Wo,,oD Wi1l x-orr please say that Miss S., the dressmaker, is at the door? Servant (after brief absence)-You are to walk up stairs. mum.-N. r. Herdld.
 If he had a mind
 The dude he would go a-courting,
 Then said his mamma kind,
 "You must not go," and he answered,
 "rll go if have mindh
 The mother smiled serenely,
 Then said, in accents low,
 ''If that is the case my darling,
 You certainly will not go."
 Well" said the persevering gov erness, '1 will put it in another shape: If it takes one servant nine hours to do the entire homework of family, how long will it take three servants to do itP' Little Nell-Oh, I can answer that! heard mamma speak of it this very morning. Teacher-Well. how long will it take them? Little Nellie Three times as long.-M r. Graphic.
 Mir. Minks-I met an old school mate to-day for the first time in forty years and we had a grand talk about old times. Mrs. Minks-It was man, I suppose. ''Oi yes, and as long as I've lived never saw such perfect example of contentment and earthly happiness as he is.n Ibid he marry ried. ."-On,ahG World.
 -Bagley (who has just been intro- duced)-Colonel Trump, of the Hog town HO1Oler? Happy to meet you. My wife sent several poems to the Hoocter in earlier years. They never appeared. [ believe. Colonel Trump-Possibly not You see, am compelled to send back or destroy interesting matter every day; receive so much Bagley -IndeediL Why don't you put some of it in the Ho10ler oceasionallyP-PhilG- delphiG Gull.
 -Sweetly explained:-'I wish was a star," he said, smiling at his own po- etic fancy 'I would rather you were a comet" she said, dreamily. His heart beat unanimously And why?' he asked tenderly, at the same tine taking her unresisting little hands in his own. "And why?" he repeated im- periously. ''Oh," she said, with a breeding earnestness that fell upon his soul like bare feet on a cold oil-cloth, "because then you would come round only once every fifteen hundred years ". !. Ledger.